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14 to 20 pairs, irregular, -4 to -5 in. apart, starting at an angle of about 

 60°, then slightly arching to and along the margin ; petiole "4 to '6 in. 

 long, pubescent, wrinkled, slightly channelled above. Inflorescence 

 of small, axillary, sessile or shortly peduncled, umbels or corymbs ; 

 peduncles -1 in. long, flowers 6 to 8 ; pedicels slender, pubescent, striate, 

 •4 in. long; bracts minute, subulate, densely pubescent, deciduous. 

 Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, "2 in. long, slightly overlapping 

 to the right, ciliate, gland-dotted especially near the tip. Corolla-lobes 

 boat-shaped, broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, "3 in. long, glabrous, 

 white, faintly nerved, dots very few, revolute in flower; tube short. 

 Stamens a little shorter than corolla-lobes ; anthers ovate, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, much gland-dotted and warted at the back on the connective ; 

 filaments thick. Ovary rounded, glabrous, style subulate, as long as 

 the anthers. Berry -2 to -4 in. in diam., globose, glabrous, pale. 

 My r sine pachysandra, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 

 297; Wall. Cat. 2284; A. DC. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 111. 

 Pimelandra Wallichii, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2. XVI. 88; Prod. 

 VIII. 106 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. V. 14. t. 31 ; Scheff. Myrs. 94 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 1029 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 531. 



Penang: Wallich 2284; Porter; Curtis 1156, 3164, 3181, 3737. 

 Malacca : Gi-iffith (K.D.) 3597 ; Maingay (K.D.) 1006. Perak : Wray 

 1358 ; King's Collector 5995, 7194.— Distrib. Borneo (?). 



2. Ardisia Teysmanniana, Scheff. in Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXXI. 

 368 and in Flora 253 (1870). A large shrub or small tree; branchlets 

 brown, with wavy longitudinal lines passing downwards from the sides 

 of the bases of the petioles, lenticels numerous, innovations densely 

 ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves entire, chartaceous ; oblong or slightly 

 obovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, alternate 

 and sometimes abruptly rounded at base ; glabrous above, densely ferru- 

 ginous-tomentose beneath; glands very numerous, small, evenly dis- 

 tributed over the whole under surface ; 6 to 11 in. long, 1-5 to 

 3 in. broad ; midrib thick, prominent beneath ; main-nerves 25 to 30 

 pairs, '3 to -4 in. apart, starting at an angle of 60°, at first straight, 

 then curving to meet in the margin in a looped nerve, raised beneath 

 as are the few secondary nerves and the many oblique reticulations ; 

 petiole very thick, -5 to "6 in. long, usually bordered by the decurrent 

 margins of the blade which are again revolute. Inflorescence of 

 axillary pedunculate umbels or corymbs ; peduncles in flower -1 to 

 •2 in. long, in fruit sometimes up to "5 in., 4-5-flowered ; pedicels 

 slender, -4 in. long, densely rusty -pubescent, striate ; bracteoles 

 linear-subulate, deciduous. Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, pubescent, 

 •1 in. long, ciliate. Corolla-lobes ovate-acuminate, -2 in. long, softly 



